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UK Regions
We recently moved home within the UK to a different BBC and ITV region.
Remarkably our Sky HD box populated 101 and 103 with the new region without intervention by me or a Sky engineer. How does this happen? |
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Guessing you notified Sky of your change of address.
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Your viewing card has data on it linking to your postcode and this has been updated over the air if you notified Sky of your change of address
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Hmmm.... We only told Sky our new address after we moved and it was 9 days later before an engineer turned up to connect the second Sky Box to the existing dish.
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Hmmm.... We only told Sky our new address after we moved and it was 9 days later before an engineer turned up to connect the second Sky Box to the existing dish.
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Was the box connected to the internet? If so that is how.
All we did was to connect the coax cables to the Sky box, plug it in and we got the local channels. We did not even have a terrestrial aerial connected; indeed we still don't to that particular TV. I did wonder if the box could determine its location from the dish but it is only a single point and insufficient for any sort of triangulation. Last edited by iamian : 18-12-2016 at 18:00. Reason: Typo |
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Hmmm.... We only told Sky our new address after we moved and it was 9 days later before an engineer turned up to connect the second Sky Box to the existing dish.
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Yes so they would have updated your postcode at the time you spoke to them regardless of when the installer came, the card would have been updated over the air almost straight away.
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Was the box connected to the internet? If so that is how.
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region bits on the smart card are updated over the air. When you informed sky of your new post code the instructions to update the region bit on your card would have been broadcast. Things like remote booking and subscription package upgrades have a high priority and tend to happen within a few minutes, other lower priority updates can happen over a couple of hours. The frequency the message appears in the broadcast also decreases as time passes, so if your box was not connected at the time you called Sky then you may have missed the period when the update was being pushed at a greater frequency, and you may have picked it up when it was on a 24hr cycle for example.
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You told them your new address when you booked the house move. Hence your stb card got updated via the satellite signal to your new region.
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Thanks for your replies.
I can only put it down to shear coincidence that Sky updated the cards the same day as we moved as the moving date changed and Sky would only book an engineer once we had confirmed we had moved. |
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